Journal ranking should depend on the level of aggregation
Digital Libraries
2020-05-28 v4 Computer Science and Game Theory
Theoretical Economics
Abstract
Journal ranking is becoming more important in assessing the quality of academic research. Several indices have been suggested for this purpose, typically on the basis of a citation graph between the journals. We follow an axiomatic approach and find an impossibility theorem: any self-consistent ranking method, which satisfies a natural monotonicity property, should depend on the level of aggregation. Our result presents a trade-off between two axiomatic properties and reveals a dilemma of aggregation.
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@article{arxiv.1904.06300,
title = {Journal ranking should depend on the level of aggregation},
author = {László Csató},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.06300},
year = {2020}
}
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10 pages, 2 figures